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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the opening of "Postcolonial Love Poem" claim that moonstones can do?
(a) Make someone fall in love with you.
(b) Predict the weather.
(c) Help you find your way home.
(d) Stop the bleeding of a snakebite.

2. In "Skin-Light," what is the most likely antecedent of "it" in the line "My whole life I have obeyed it" (21)?
(a) "Skin-Light."
(b) This "god-made place."
(c) "The opened-gold field."
(d) The "glide of the hand."

3. In "Ink-Light," where are the speaker and her beloved?
(a) On a riverbank.
(b) In the desert.
(c) In a hotel room.
(d) On a snowy street.

4. In "Wolf OR-7," what technique is being employed in the page 33 line, "My mind climbed the rise, fall, rise of your bared back"?
(a) Asyndeton.
(b) Pun.
(c) Hypotaxis.
(d) Syllogism.

5. In "Ink-Light," the speaker mentions "the ramus" of which of the beloved's body parts?
(a) Eye.
(b) Stomach.
(c) Thigh.
(d) Jaw.

6. What vehicle is mentioned in the opening of "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word"?
(a) Ambulance.
(b) Airplane.
(c) Subway train.
(d) Taxi.

7. In "They Don't Love You Like I Love You," who tells the speaker "Don't stray" (19)?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her friend.
(c) Her lover.
(d) Her brother.

8. In "The Mustangs," what is the mother talking about when she mentions "slingshots" (35)?
(a) Her children's toys.
(b) Her son's arms and hands.
(c) The birds that nest in their rafters.
(d) The family's dogs.

9. In "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word," what does the speaker claim to do with her "mouth of smoke" (14)?
(a) Put bees to sleep.
(b) Fill the room.
(c) Speak an unknown language.
(d) Preserve meat.

10. In "Like Church," what does the speaker say she has "escaped through" (29)?
(a) A searchlight.
(b) The beloved's body.
(c) The window.
(d) Dirty water.

11. In "Run'n'Gun," what is the rhetorical purpose of the description of the Indian children's shoes and socks?
(a) It develops the poem's lighthearted tone.
(b) It portrays their pride in their heritage.
(c) It portrays them as underdogs.
(d) It foreshadows the poem's ending.

12. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," the speaker makes a reference to the "hundred-handed ones." Who were these figures?
(a) The ancient potters who created human beings.
(b) The giant offspring of Sky and Earth.
(c) The monsters that guard the gates of the underworld.
(d) The wise women who control fate.

13. In "Skin-Light," what is the likely antecedent of "this" in "This is the war I was born for" (22)?
(a) The struggle for Native sovereignty.
(b) Her relationship with her brother.
(c) Her relationship with her lover.
(d) The battle against erasure.

14. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," what comparison is made by the lines "eaten the bread/ of your thighs, broke you to wine" (7)?
(a) Sex with the beloved is compared to the Christian rite of communion.
(b) Coming home to the beloved is compared to the Ancient Greek tradition of hospitality.
(c) The hard work of a relationship is compared to agricultural work.
(d) Jealousy and possessiveness in a relationship is compared to cannibalism.

15. In the page 1 lines, "when the war ended. The war ended/ depending on which war you mean," what technique is used to introduce ambiguity?
(a) Allusion.
(b) Synechdoche.
(c) Personification.
(d) Enjambment.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Blood-Light," what is described in the page 5 image "yellow metallic scissors"?

2. In "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word," what is the speaker's objection to her lover saying, "You make me feel like lightening" (15)?

3. In "Like Church," what fruit does the speaker say the afterlife will be full of?

4. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," what is the antecedent of the word "they" in the opening line "Haven't they moved like rivers?" (7)?

5. In "Asterion's Lament," what does the speaker say is another name for "water" (27)?

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